Beauty

[LBandS]

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

On 1/5/2014 annnacat said:

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

There is a CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE anti-microbial skin cleanser/treatment for skin rashes that can be purchased OTC at most pharmacy stores. Rite Aid carries it. It's usually sold in a 4% solution. About $9 -$12. Ask the pharmacist for it. Read and follow the directions closely. For occasional use only -- not for every day cleansing.

If you are so intent on giving others medical advice, IOW practicing medicine without a license a felony in every state, why didn't you go to medical school?

Nothing the OP can do is appropriate, except see a real doctor ASAP!

And I know you are not one, because a licensed physician would never give advice, especially on an unseen rash, on a public board. They would lose their license!

This is an over-the-counter cleanser that is available without a prescription. However, I did amend my post to reflect that the OP should ask her doctor about it before using it.

How will you feel if she is harmed by following your medical advice because that is what you did, you gave her medical advice without a license to practice medicine!

Everyone who offered any advice beyond, Get thee to a Doctor ASAP, has done the same thing.

If this happened in the real world and she was harmed, you could be arrested for practicing medicine without a license. And given the free and unwarranted, and potentially dangerous, advice offered on public boards like this one, I think eventually someone will be arrested for doing it on an anonymous board and I doubt QVC would defy a supena.

But I think you want to help her and would feel horrible if she followed your advice and got hurt.

This is the real reason good hearted people should understand how dangerous offering any medical advice beyond "go to the doctor now!" can be.

I know enough to know that the rash she describes could be as simple as contact dermatitis or an allergy, or something as awful as diabetes, auto-immune disease, and even a very serious form of cancer that needs to be treated ASAP.

She might be frightened and looking for an excuse not to go and everyone on this thread is enabling her to that when they send her to sites with pictures, and suggest things like Benadryl (which would actually kill me but I know that it can cause dangerous side effects in some people because of what happened to me) and cleansers.

All you are all doing is helping the OP to avoid doing what she needs to do, which is go to any doctor she can see ASAP.

[LBandS]

On 1/5/2014 suzyQ3 said:

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

On 1/5/2014 suzyQ3 said:

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:>> edited for brevity<<

Again, JMO, but before she asks her doctor about using anything for her rash, I think she should let him or her try to figure out what's causing it.

I say that because of my experience with doctors. I have found that they are more receptive when I give them a chance to do their job before my making any suggestions.

ITA SuzyQ3!

Docs like to be the doc in the room and give us better treatment when let them figure stuff out first.

I am very assertive in my own care but am always respectful of my docs and let them take the lead.

Then if I have a concern that they do not bring up, I do raise it after they have had their chance.

I find they are far more receptive to my concerns when I do this.

Their office staff are a different subject. My own PCP has sent me to Risk Management for some of the problems I have had getting through to him during the last year.

[suzyQ3]

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

On 1/5/2014 suzyQ3 said:

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

On 1/5/2014 suzyQ3 said:

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

There is a CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE anti-microbial skin cleanser/treatment for skin rashes that can be purchased OTC at most pharmacy stores. Rite Aid carries it. It's usually sold in a 4% solution. About $9 -$12. Ask the pharmacist for it. Read and follow the directions closely. For occasional use only -- not for every day cleansing.

IMO, she shouldn't do anything until she sees a doctor.

And she shouldn't conclude that the rash is a result of any meds she's on either, just because some have had reactions to the ones you mentioned in your other post.

The first line in my post I suggested she see a dermatologist.

I agree, she should probably ask her doctor about using Chlorhexadine gluconate skin cleanser, even though it is OTC. I'll edit that into my post.

Again, JMO, but before she asks her doctor about using anything for her rash, I think she should let him or her try to figure out what's causing it.

I say that because of my experience with doctors. I have found that they are more receptive when I give them a chance to to their job before my making any suggestions.

I agree with you.

I posted the information about statins side effects as a "heads up" just in case she or someone else reading here comes down with a "mystery rash" as my FIL did. Statin rashes are just one of many causes of skin rashes.

Thanks, 57babe. I think we do agree.

[57babe]

On 1/6/2014 suzyQ3 said:

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

On 1/5/2014 suzyQ3 said:

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

On 1/5/2014 suzyQ3 said:

On 1/5/2014 57babe said:

There is a CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE anti-microbial skin cleanser/treatment for skin rashes that can be purchased OTC at most pharmacy stores. Rite Aid carries it. It's usually sold in a 4% solution. About $9 -$12. Ask the pharmacist for it. Read and follow the directions closely. For occasional use only -- not for every day cleansing.

IMO, she shouldn't do anything until she sees a doctor.

And she shouldn't conclude that the rash is a result of any meds she's on either, just because some have had reactions to the ones you mentioned in your other post.

The first line in my post I suggested she see a dermatologist.

I agree, she should probably ask her doctor about using Chlorhexadine gluconate skin cleanser, even though it is OTC. I'll edit that into my post.

Again, JMO, but before she asks her doctor about using anything for her rash, I think she should let him or her try to figure out what's causing it.

I say that because of my experience with doctors. I have found that they are more receptive when I give them a chance to to their job before my making any suggestions.

I agree with you.

I posted the information about statins side effects as a "heads up" just in case she or someone else reading here comes down with a "mystery rash" as my FIL did. Statin rashes are just one of many causes of skin rashes.

Thanks, 57babe. I think we do agree.

I agree. LOL.

BTW, Happy New Year!

[suzyQ3]

Happy New Year to you, too, 57babe.

[Vamp]

Go see a doctor ASAP. No one on a beauty board--not even a doctor on a beauty board--can diagnose and treat your problem. All you can get from us is a bunch of guesses and theories on what could be the cause based on our own personal experiences, which may or may not have anything to do with what you are experiencing.

Your doctor needs to see the rash, ask some pointed questions about it and any changes to your lifestyle and whatever else he/she finds applicable and then proceed with a course of action. Sorry, no one here can do that for you.

Good luck. I hope you find the cause and get it treated before waiting any longer.

ETA: Treating the rash with some of the recommendations given here may help, but they also may do more harm than good. Go to a doctor. Please.